Lara Williams

No more suggestive advertising - this fragrance is literally the scent of sex

No more suggestive advertising – this fragrance is literally the scent of sex.

No more suggestive advertising - this fragrance is literally the scent of sex

From Iceland's No Bull quarter pounders to the Impossible Burger that "bleeds," the new wave of meat substitute burgers is surprisingly carnivorous.

Lukasz Mazurek and Przemek Marcinkowski run Manchester’s only modern restaurant. Platzki serves new takes on Polish classics, including beef fillet tartare and smoked cottage cheese cakes.

PMS clumsiness is either a thing or leftover from the days when science tried to justify treating women like freaks for menstruating.

Tokyo tea expert Mei Lee wants to introduce Manchester to the art of the Japanese tea ceremony, a drinking ritual involving matcha and mochi that can last for several hours.

Once the realm of hemp fans and people who smoke apple bongs, veganism is now overrun with “bros”—guys who think meat is for pussies and call tofu “the tits.”

Once the preserve of hemp fans and people who smoke apple bongs, veganism is now overrun with “bros”—guys who think meat is for pussies and call tofu “the tits.” But does such frat boy rhetoric actually help the movement?

Once the preserve of hemp fans and people who smoke apple bongs, veganism is now overrun with “bros”—guys who think meat is for pussies and call tofu “the tits.” But does such frat boy rhetoric actually help the movement?

“In Stretford, there isn’t much of a sense of pride towards the community,” says Heather Garlick, who opened her homely bar in the Manchester suburb two years ago. “I wanted to create somewhere integrated.”

Scientists know where fear comes from—it's triggered by the feeling of losing control or being rendered powerless in some way. But why is it now a cultural obsession?